From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 6 00:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05732 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 00:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05713 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 00:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10046; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 02:30:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806060730.CAA10046@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: New SMP perf/quality snapshot (Update) In-Reply-To: <199806060135.UAA00595@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Jun 5, 98 08:35:51 pm" To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 02:30:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John S. Dyson said: > I have placed a new SMP quality/performance snapshot on: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~dyson/sysjun05.diff.gz > > If this works out, it will be the basis for alot of bugfixes > in -current, related to both SMP and UP problems. Note that > this code has been tested only on a P6 machine, in both > UP and SMP mode. The P5 codepaths are slightly different, and > might have a bug or two. If this appears to work okay, I'll > ready the (P5 and earlier) codepaths, and move forward with it. > New file: http://www.freebsd.org/~dyson/sysjun06.diff.gz Bugfixes, improvement of zero idle loop, disable PPro zero optimizations for now (looks like algorithmic bug of some kind.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message